Echo Rock & Echo Cove
Joshua Tree National Park · near Joshua Tree · California Desert
Rock Climbing
At a glance
- Skill level
- intermediate
- Grade range
- 5.6-5.12d
- Best season
- October-April; the sunny South Face is a warm winter spot
Permits and booking
- Permit
- Joshua Tree NP entrance fee (~$30/vehicle, 7 days); no climbing permit required for day climbing. Watch for seasonal raptor closures (typically Feb-June) on some formations - check the NPS Joshua Tree climbing page.
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Rock Climbing detail
- Climb types
- trad · top-rope · multi-pitch
- Rock type
- Quartz monzonite
- Route count
- ~86 routes
- Signature routes
- Double Dip · EBGBs · Pope's Crack
- Intl tip
- J-Tree's best moderate friction slabs - a great place to learn footwork and log easy leads. The sunny South Face (Pope's Crack) is a warm winter spot. Short approach from Barker Dam; fall-spring only.
The guide
Echo Rock and the adjoining Echo Cove are Joshua Tree's friction-slab sanctuary - a cluster of clean, moderate granite near the…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Echo Rock & Echo Cove — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 34.0252, -116.1558